Bevölkerung von London im Vergleich zu großen US-Städten
Von vladgrinch
Bevölkerung von London im Vergleich zu großen US-Städten
Von vladgrinch
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Periodic reminder that in the US, „city“ populations are completely meaningless artifacts of arbitrary political borders that do not reflect the actual size, population, or urbanity of the place in question, and relying on them masks the true distribution of people and leads to flatly incorrect conclusions. If you want to understand anything meaningful about urban population clustering in the US, you have to use urban areas or metro areas. If you want to understand municipal services, you must include other forms of municipalities.
This is, in short, completely random junk data.
Turns out bigger cities are bigger than smaller cities.
Metro areas are generally the city population not the small city limits at the core in the US, most people don’t even live in the downtown city limits part but around it.
Using this metric Chicago itself has 10 million people and Dallas has around the same.
Population or Area?
The „City of London“ has a population of 15,000± people.
The „City of Chicago“ has a population of 2.7± million people
Edit: I’m pointing out the map is comparing Greater London to „city proper“ population of all the other cities listed. It is comparing two different things.
Try Tokyo or Shanghai
„pEoPlE lIiVe iN cItIeS“
This is really stupid for the reasons others have mentioned. London metro area is actually quite similar in population to Chicago metro area.
Area of London you mean?
San Francisco is only 7 square miles, not very “big”.
What are you showing here? Does Greater London have the same population as the combined total of all these cities?
whats the orange line?
this map gave me hemorrhoids
Not including 80% of the top 5 is a choice.
It’s sad to see what’s become of London in recent times.
Bold choice putting Philadelphia next to Dallas. If Philadelphia were next to Dallas in real life, both cities would be rubble
What is the orange line?
Whoa, Detroit sneaking up like that? Metro areas are wild.
Cool. Detroit is huge.
Now do Houston.
So these are just city propers compared to metro area of London?
Chicago’s metro has roughly the same pop as London.
Much more spread out tho as people there tend to have bigger houses instead of living cramped together.
So many American commenters trying to rationalise how actually American cities are bigger than London for some reason.
London is defined as a megacity similar to LA and NY. Its borders have been restricted by planning laws since the 1970s in an attempt to stop sprawling growth but even so there are border towns and London airports that are included in its metropolitan area.
The graphic is misleading. Dallas is not that big. The DFW Metroplex is silly huge. Europe tends to amalagste their big cities as they grow, where the USA leaves them separate. Dfw is 8.1 million compared to greater London’s 9.8 million.